List of Influential Works Based Wholly or Partly on USC’s Archival Materials

The USC’s archives are widely considered to be a treasure to China scholars from around the world. This is extolled by the leading journal the China Journal in its January 2016 Special Issue which paid tribute to the USC for its important contribution to the field. To show its value to China scholars, we are citing 15 publications that have made notable use of the USC’s collection. Space and time only allow us to show the more important works published in the last decade. Based wholly or partly on archival studies at the USC, these books were written by outstanding scholars and published by the most prestigious publishers of the world. They cover a wide range of topics, including history, governance, reforms, social changes, international relations, Cultural Revolution, Communist Party, Maoism, state making, political movement, to gender, etc.

Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies; Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science & Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Lianjiang Li, Professor of Political Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong